The Cost of EHR Downtime

  • timothy-beglin

    The Cost of EHR Downtime

    Electronic health records (EHR) were intended to store patient records, which, though helpful, leaves a lot to be desired. Hospitals run around the clock with zero time to waste, so unexpected EHR downtime within a hospital system can be catastrophic....

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  • will-oconnor

    Streamlined Referrals Improve the Patient Experience

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    Recently at TigerSummit, Angeline Cosca, Chief Information Officer of Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging Centers, delivered a presentation centered on improving the patient experience and eliminating conflict by streamlining a hospital’s referral process. Based in Southern Nevada, Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging...

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  • will-oconnor

    5 Telehealth Tips to Ignite Care Collaboration Adoption

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    As vital as they are to workflow efficiency and care quality, telehealth expansion and collaboration solutions have been limited and sporadically adopted. Because virtual care platforms are widespread across an organization, there generally isn’t one department that owns this type...

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  • will-oconnor

    Cloud Software Pushes Past the Limitations of Today’s EHR Texting Modules

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    As the gravity of lost revenue from COVID-19 hits home, hospitals and health systems are looking for any avenue they can find to offset the massive loss in revenue that came as elective procedures dried up and costs mounted for...

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  • will-oconnor

    6 Ways to Improve Transfer Center Communication Inefficiency

    The patient journey is not always a one-and-done. It can often include a few stopovers at different facilities – the emergency department, ICU, skilled nursing facilities, and others. This is especially true for older patients and those with chronic conditions...

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  • chris

    The Evolution of Secure Healthcare Communication – A HIMSS19 Talk with Healthcare IT Today

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    At HIMSS 2019 Dr. Will O’Connor, MD, CMIO at TigerConnect, sat down for a conversation with John Lynn, the Sr. Editor at healthcareITToday.com. They talked about physician burnout, EHR clicking and coding, the evolution of healthcare communication tools, and the...

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